Tuberculosis hospital and sanatorium construction / written for the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.

  • Carrington, Thomas Spees
Date:
1911
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Credit: Tuberculosis hospital and sanatorium construction / written for the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    Cost of Administration Buildings Administration buildings for an institution housing fifty patients can be constructed for $12,000 and upward, the cost depending upon the material used and the exterior and interior finish. Cost of Infirmaries and Pavilions for Advanced Cases Infirmaries and pavilions for advanced cases, having a capacity of twenty patients housed in single rooms, can be constructed for $10,000 and upward. Cost of Lean-tos Lean-tos having a capacity of sixteen incipient cases can be constructed for $800 and upward. Examples of Appropriations The following list is given in order to show how, in an actual case, $100,000 was expended for the construction of a State Sanatorium housing one hundred and fifty patients of all classes except the very far advanced cases. Administration Building $31,500 Four Lean-tos (each $3,500) 14,000 Two Wards for Advanced Cases (each $7,000) 14,000 Power House and Heating Plant 5,000 Sewage Disposal Plant 2,000 Water Pumping and Supply Plant 5,ooo Boilers and Machinery 3,300 Furnishings 7,000 Laundry 1,200 Land (Site) 5,500 Expenses of Building Commission 11,500 Total $100,000 The following is cited in order to show the distribution of an appropriation for the construction of a County Hospital having a capacity for fifty patients, of all classes. Site, Water Supply and Sewage Disposal $10,000 Administration Building 16,000 Advanced Case Pavilion (Twenty Beds) 10,000 Two Incipient Case Pavilions ($2,500 each) 5,000 Total . .• $41,000 Arrangement of the Floor Plans for Administration Buildings Many Administration Buildings constructed for Tuberculosis Hospitals or Sanatoria have been designed on general hospital lines. This has not proven to be the most satis- factory type of building for administrative purposes, as the medical staff, nurses and ser- vants are often arrested or cured cases of tuberculosis. Administration buildings that seem best adapted for institutions of this class, are those constructed so that all persons housed in them may have, if desired, individual open-air sleeping porches. For this reason, it is the opinion of many authorities that all buildings for tuberculosis institutions should be of the open type; that is to say, with walls pierced by as many windows reaching from the floors to the ceiling as possible, and all apartments arranged so that they may be thrown
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